The course serves, on one hand, as an introduction to the science of language that describes the nature of language as a system, its origins, properties, definitions, functions, families, and theories about how language is seen from different linguistic perspectives provided by various scholars. Thus, students are exposed to such new and fundamental issues to have sufficient background knowledge that help them understand better what is language and how it is described scientifically through the field of linguistics.
On the other hand, students are also exposed to what is linguistics as the scientific study of language, its branches and how each branch deals with language (different study perspectives), the scientific steps that it follows in its descriptions of language; mainly those provided by the pioneering figures of the field as de Saussure, Sapir, Bloomfield, and Chomsky.
- Teacher: ILHEM CHEKKAT